The U.N. special envoy for Syria warned Monday many thousands more refugees would flee to Europe if the international community cannot find a peace accord and abandons them to ISIS. "Why are people leaving? Because they have lost hope after five years of endless conflict and they see only one...

(Writing by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) More than 28 months passed since Abdullah al-Khalil, the lawyer and human rights advocate, had been arrested by the Syrian regime security in May 2013. Reports confirmed that al-Khalil was tortured and detained...

As Europe grapples with a flood of refugees from the Syrian war and the pope urges Catholics to help them, the U.S. government may lack the political appetite to offer American soil as a safe haven to more than the current trickle of Syrians. Refugee and immigrant groups had...

ISIS killed 6 Kurdish Democratic Party fighters in northeastern province of Hasakah on Monday, activists said as Kurds and U.S.-led coalition have been intensifying aerial and ground bombardment to expel the hardline group from the north of war-torn country. Mahmoud al-Ahmed, activist, told...